Enhance PowellDwight Van de Vate, Knox

County’s senior director of En-gineering and Public Works, will meet with residents from 4-5 p.m. Wednesday, April 13, at the Powell Branch

Library. He will answer ques-tions and update drawing board projects including:

■ Improvements to the entry to Historic Powell Station, perhaps including a round-about on Emory Road at Spring Street;

■ Upgrades and curbing on Depot Street to defi ne old Pow-ell’s commercial district; and

■ Pedestrian and bicycle access on Brickyard Ro ad from Emory Road to Powell Drive.

Enhance Powell is open to all interested residents. It is a com-mittee of the Powell Business and Professional Association, co-chaired by Sandra Clark and Justin Bailey. Info: 661-8777.

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By Sandra ClarkPowell High School alumni

packed the room at Jubilee Ban-quet Facility on Saturday to honor the Class of 1966, award scholar-ships and elect offi cers.

Dr. Chad Smith, PHS Class of 1992 and now principal of the high school, was the primary speaker.

Mike Bayless was elected to a second term as president. Other offi cers include Vivian McFalls, secretary-treasurer; Sandra Da-vis, past president; Mary Ma-honey, second past president; and Terri Rose, scholarship secretary. Board members are Laura Bailey, Nancy Herd, John Bayless and Brenda Jacques. Board advisors are Jacki Kirk, Susan Todd Martin and Lynette Brown.

Scholarships were presented to

Hannah Kidd, Natalie Wallace, Dalton Jett, Shelby Bell and Bryson Cowden. Kidd will major in nursing at UT Knoxville. Wal-lace will study animal science at UT. Jett will study psychology at UT Chattanooga. Bell and Cowden were not able to attend the re-union. Cowden received the Bones Jennings award.

Ben Sergeant received an engi-

neering award from UT Knoxville. Smith said he will be honored at the school board April 6 as a Na-tional Merit Scholarship fi nalist. Pierce Anderson, a 2015 gradu-ate, also received an engineering scholarship from UT.

Terri Rose, who chaired the scholarship committee, said appli-cations were submitted by number rather than by name. “We had a blind review.”

“We’re proud of all of our grad-uates,” said Bayless.

Entertainment was by a quartet of Jim Kennedy’s music students: Abigail Brown, Hannah Manner, Ellie Smith and AnnaBelle Rabi-nowitz, known as the Southern Belles.

Lynus Gill was recognized as the oldest member present, and

Chad Smith salutes Powell alumnione attendee came from New Mex-ico for the reunion.

Nineteen members of the Class of 1966 attended (although only 17 stuck around for the picture).

Powell High principal, Dr. Chad Smith, entertained the crowd with stories of attending Powell High School. He recalled Sandy Nesbitt’s English class and Mike McPherson’s social studies class where every Friday during football season he would do an impression of the opposing team’s mascot. “We all looked forward to that.”

He said Yvonne Piercy “sparked my love for U.S. history.”

“Powell High School crafted me for who I am today.”

Smith’s fi rst teaching job out of

Dr. Chad Smith Mike Bayless

By Betty Bean Two years out from the 2018

county elections, there’s half a gaggle of candidates thinking about running for mayor.

Don’t look for County Com-missioner Bob Thomas to run for re-election to his at-large commis-sion seat in 2018, even though he’ll be fi nishing his fi rst term. He’ll be too busy running for mayor.

Thomas is making plans to suc-ceed Tim Burchett, who is term-limited. He’s tearing a page from Burchett’s campaign book and will be the guest-of-honor at an old-timey baloney-cutting May 11. That’ll be on a Wednesday, start-ing at 11:30 at Powell Auction & Realty – the venue where Burchett kicked off his campaign for county mayor.

“We’re expecting 1,500,” Thom-as said. “The Chillbillies are play-ing and we’ll have R.C. Colas and Moon Pies. It’ll be a big party.”

Thomas has had a long career in radio broadcasting, once owned a hockey team and has written

Haynes Burkhardt Anders

Next leader?

Prospects ponder race for county mayorHas he run for offi ce before?“Lord, no. I’m still debating

how sound I am for even thinkingabout this.

“I’ve been involved in KnoxCounty politics for a little while,but I’ve been anonymous for a lotof years, intentionally. I’ve workedon a lot of campaigns, helped asmany people as I could. MayorBurchett is term-limited, so thisis a good time for me to give it mybest shot. In eight more years, I’llbe too old.”

Another county commissioner,Brad Anders, is also mulling a runfor mayor. Anders, a former com-mission chair, is a lieutenant anda crisis negotiator in the KnoxvillePolice Department whose nameused to come up as a candidate forsheriff, as well.

“That one (sheriff) is not asprominent in the conversation asit once was,” Anders said. “At thispoint, I haven’t ruled either one ofthem out, and I don’t know exactly

TV shows. He stays in close touch with his son, Jake, a TV actor who lives in Los Angeles. He says he’s anxious to take on the challenge of promoting Knox County as a tour-ism destination and has big plans to move forward without a tax in-crease.

Knox County Republican Party chair Buddy Burkhardt is also run-ning wide open. He’s got a Face-book page, “Buddy for Knox Coun-ty Mayor,” that doesn’t have much information yet, but does display

some spiffy-looking red “Vote for Burkhardt” T-shirts and shots of Burkhardt with GOP notables like Jeb Bush and Ben Carson.

On Dec. 12, he asked, “Ready for your Buddy for Mayor Apparel and Yard Signs? Coming SOON!!!”

Burkhardt is an electronics and information technology specialist in the Knox County Sheriff’s Of-fi ce – “Today, I’m wiring up water controls in the jail. Tomorrow it’ll be computers. I’m an electronics person.”

Thomas

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Hips to HoopsDad’s still in the game after MS leads to hip surgery

Kendrick Tate picks up a bas-ketball, slowly dribbles his way to the far side of the court just be-yond the three-point circle. In one smooth, arching fl ick of the wrist, the ball strips the net. Whoosh!

What’s better than a three-pointer with your 9-year-old son watching? Not much.

“He’s the best shooter I know,” a grinning Preston McLeskey says of his Dad.

“Good answer,” his father re-sponds with a smile.

They have the court all to them-selves this afternoon as Tate, a 41-year-old single father of three, teaches his son the fundamen-tals of a game he so loved not that many years ago at Austin-East High School. Tate’s youthful ap-pearance and broad smile belies the agony he was in just months earlier before he had both hips re-placed at Parkwest Medical Cen-ter by orthopedic surgeon Dr. Hal Cates.

“Oh, I love Dr. Cates,” Tate says without hesita-tion. “I’ll be for-ever grateful. He’s just a good man, and I’m not just saying that to build him up. But when you are going to have a serious proce-dure done, you

want somebody you can trust and somebody who is going to be hon-est with you. And he was that from Day One. He just had that com-forting effect, so I was not ner-vous about the surgery. I felt like I was in good hands. So I prayed and prayed about it, and I was just at peace with him. I mean, if you can convince me to have both of my hips replaced at the same time, you have done something. So I have to give him his kudos. I’ll be forever grateful for that man.”

“The bottom line on Mr. Tate was that he was a young man with a severe loss of motion in his hips due to his multiple sclerosis,” said

With his new hips, Kendrick Tate is

able to play basketball with his son

again.

What is multiple sclerosis (MS)?Thought to be an autoimmune disorder, multiple

sclerosis (MS) is a chronic disease of the central ner-vous system. It can be relatively benign, disabling or devastating. Some individuals with MS may be mild-ly affected, while others may lose their ability to see clearly, write, speak, or walk when communication be-tween the brain and other parts of the body becomes disrupted.

Patients with MS lose myelin, a fatty tissue that sur-rounds and protects the nerve fi bers, causing scar tis-sue (also called sclerosis, plaquesor lesions) in multiple areas with MS. When damaged in this way, the nerves are unable to conduct electrical impulses to and from the brain.

The exact cause of MS is unknown, although genet-ics, environmental factors and viruses are possible culprits. Because there is no defi nitive test available to diagnose multiple sclerosis, a probable MS diagnoses can be made by following a careful process to uncover symptoms consistent with MS while ruling out other causes and diseases.

Trouble is, however, that MS symptoms vary widely from patient to patient. They may be mild or severe, of long duration or short. They may appear in various combi-nations, depending on the area of the ner-vous system affected. About 50 percent of all people with MS experience cognitive impairments related to their disease. The effects of these impairments may be mild, often detectable only after comprehensive testing, and may include diffi culty with concentration, attention, memory and/or poor judgment.

Specifi c treatment for MS will be determined by your doctor based on:

■ Your age, overall health and medical history ■ Extent of the disease ■ Your tolerance for specifi c medications, proce-

dures or therapies ■ Expectations for the course of the disease ■ Your opinion or preference

Treatments for the conditions associated with MS may include:

■ Medication ■ Clinical trials ■ Assistive technology ■ Rehabilitation activities

There is no cure yet for MS. However, there are strat-egies to modify the disease course, treat exacerbations, manage symptoms and improve function and mobility.

Dr. Cates. “It was diffi cult for him to walk, to go up steps, to turn, to do any type of daily living activity with his son. It’s unusual for pa-tients to get bilateral hip replace-ments done simultaneously, but if the patient is healthy enough like he was, it’s actually easier to get them both done at the same time.”

The surgery, Tate says, was “life-changing,” permitting him to still enjoy the teaching sessions with his son Preston and spend-ing time with daughters Larah, 16, and Kyla, 10.

He himself had hoped to play college ball, but life has a habit of unfolding in unexpected ways. “I realized that basketball was not going to be my avenue as far as making a lifestyle,” he said. “I was good but I wasn’t that good.”

Instead, Tate found his calling as a probation offi cer and director of the Community Service pro-gram of the Knox County Juvenile Court. “I enjoy it,” he says. “I like working with kids. That was my calling. That’s why I’m not in the NBA. That’s what He [God] in-

struct-ed so that’s where I am.”

But his life took another turn about six years ago when he be-gan experiencing numbness in his hands and arms. “I knew some-thing was going on, but I shrugged it off for a long time,” he said. “But I knew ultimately I had to go see what it was.”

The neurologist’s diagnosis – multiple sclerosis (MS), an unpre-dictable, often disabling disease of the central nervous system that disrupts the fl ow of information within the brain and between the brain and body – left Tate stunned.

“It was a shock because I had been relatively healthy, and this meant I couldn’t play basketball so that was a killer,” he said. “So hearing that news and not know-ing what exactly MS was all about – I was thinking, ‘Is it like can-cer?’ – I didn’t know.”

Fortunately, his MS had been caught early, perhaps as soon as three months after its onset. “They

did some tests and found lesions on my brain and spinal cord,” he said. “They put me on steroids for about a month and said that would deteriorate the lesions.”

The steroids did just that, but not without cost. A couple months later, while playing a game of pickup basketball, he felt some “slippage” in his hips and noticed he couldn’t slide his feet later-ally, as in doing defensive drills. “At fi rst, I thought it was the MS, that it was moving rapidly and it was taking its course,” said Tate.

“I couldn’t fi gure it out. Then, I thought maybe I had

just played too long that day. But I knew

something wasn’t right so I went back to my doc-tor.”

That’s when he learned that the

steroids had caused both hip joints to de-

teriorate. Fearful of sur-gery, he procrastinated. “I

was thinking ‘I’ll deal with this until I’m 70,’ not grasping the re-alization of the situation,” he said. “During that whole time, my hips were deteriorating. It went from me doing a casual sprint to not be-ing able to run at all. My hips pret-ty much folded. I couldn’t spread my legs apart. We’re talking just a minor separation. I could not lift my legs up. Anything to do with the legs, I could not do. At one point, it hurt to walk. Out of a pain scale of 1 to 10, it was like a 15. That’s how bad it was.”

Finally, Tate sought out Dr. Cates. “I just trusted him from Day One,” he said. “We just had that rapport. He was like, ‘You want to stop hurting? You need to have the surgery. It’s that plain and simple.’ After talking with him, I got that reassurance. I was tired of hurting. I had gone from being in good shape to be-ing like a 75-year-old man. That just wasn’t working. I got tired. I wanted to stop hurting.”

On April 8, 2015, Kendrick Tatewas rolled into an operating roomat Parkwest Medical Center. Whenhe emerged, he had two new hipsand a new outlook on life.

“Now I’m fl ying and bouncingaround. Now, I walk just to bewalking. I’m back to being my oldself,” said Tate. “Before, you couldsee the grief, the strain, the stress,the pain on my face, but now it’slike total happiness. To me, it’s anew lease on life. I’m going to en-joy these hips for the rest of mylife. I’m going to get my usage outof them.”

As for his MS, Tate says it’s un-der control with medication. “Tobe honest, I can’t tell I have it any-more,” he said. “Since they put meon medication, it doesn’t hinderme and I still work out and I canstill play basketball – maybe notas well as I want to, but I can stillplay. And that’s enough for me.”

That includes, of course, work-ing with Preston on “just the fun-damentals, just learning the game,why you are out there, and under-standing what you are doing andwhy you are doing it as opposed tojust being on the court,” he says.“It makes it much more fun whenyou know what you are doing.”

No wonder Tate’s son calls hima “fun teacher.”

“He tries to tell me how to drib-ble with two basketballs and alsotries to teach me how to do dribblebetween my legs or behind myback,” Preston said.

Dad has learned some lessons,too.

“If you are thinking about hipreplacement surgery, and knowyou need to have it and you’rehaving a lot of pain that’s af-fecting your daily living, go haveit done,” he said. “Things youwould normally do you won’t do. Iwouldn’t go to basketball games, Iwouldn’t go to football games, be-cause it was hard for me to climbthe bleachers. It’s life-changing.Get your life back because no-body should be forced to live inpain.”

Dr. Hal Cates

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college was at South-Doyle High School where he found a touch of Powell. Rick Walker was principal and Clark Duncan was coaching football. He recalls a funny annual photo in which Dun-can is attempting to teach Smith to drive. “We found an old driver ed car …”

Smith now holds a doc-torate and was recognized by local and state educators for his work at Carter Mid-dle School last year. When he returned to Powell High as principal, he encountered “eight of my former teachers looking back at me” during his fi rst faculty meeting.

Wrapping up his fi rst year, Smith fl atly says his goal is to restore Powell High’s reputation as the best public high school in Knox County. “We’re the fourth largest high school in the district with about 1,400 students. The bound-aries are Clinton Highway from the county line to the interstate (I-640). We have more diversity now than we’ve ever had.”

He discussed the school’s academic departments, say-ing Powell has the premier science department in KCS. In English, “we’re still read-ing Shakespeare,” but the faculty is also handling the yearbook and an upcoming student newspaper. Kids now have to take math every year, presenting a challenge to that department.

Powell High has “one of the largest number of Ad-vanced Placement classes offered and most of them are in social studies.” The fi ne arts faculty is stellar, he said, and Powell has the largest marching band in Knox County. World lan-guages include Spanish and Latin, “a very rigorous class.”

Highlights from the reunion gala

Golden Grads from Powell High School class of 1966: (front)

Dora Wells Love, Cathy Humphrey Cox, John Norman, Marsha

Sneed,  Brenda Keith Voiles,  Sam McSpadden; (center) Mike

Fleming,  Janice Linkous Hall,  Dwight Travis,  Linda Grizzard

Cudd, J.B. “Junior” Wampler, Judy Scott Irwin, Joy Richardson

Corum,  Dwayne Travis; (back) Hank Blanton,  Danny Bartlett

and Randy Mayhew.

Reunion entertainers are The South-

ern Belles from Powell High School:

Hannah Manner, Ellie Smith, Abigail

Brown and AnnaBelle Rabinowitz.

Scholarship winners from the Powell Alumni Association: Ben Sergeant, Dalton Jett, Hannah

Kidd and Natalie Wallace. Not pictured are Shelby Bell and Bryson Cowden.

Athletically, Powell is strong with baseball win-nin g three of the last four district tournaments and the girls soccer team one game away from the state tournament.

Smith anticipates facil-ity upgrades. He noted that Powell was among the fi rst in Knox County to get a new turf football fi eld, which will be installed around April 15. It will have orange end zones with black letters and a giant Panther’s paw at midfi eld.

He wants to expand the school’s cafeteria to accom-modate the increased en-rollment and to provide a collegiate atmosphere dur-ing lunch. He wants to start a school store and plans a senior lunch to honor up-coming grads.

“Your experience at Powell High School meant something to you. That’s why you’re here tonight,” he said. “We need alumni to tell our kids what this world has to offer.”

what the drop-dead decision date is.”

Anders has served as a commissioner since 2008 and has been with KPD for 24 years, and said he has profes-sional and family decisions to make before he can think about running for mayor.

“A lot of things would have to click in the right way for that to happen,” he said.

Former state Rep. Ryan Haynes is also a potential candidate. Haynes, who re-signed from the General Assembly to become state GOP chair, pooh-poohs that notion. When pressed he of-fered this statement:

“I’ll say this. I’m fl attered my name has been men-

tioned, but I have a job to do, and it’s way premature to start a new campaign season when the current one isn’t even over. The last thing we need is individual interests dividing up our communi-ties.”

And, fi nally, there’s Crimi-nal Court Clerk Mike Ham-mond, who could not be reached for comment. Court clerks are not subject to term limits, and Hammond, who was elected clerk in 2014, is considered an unlikely may-oral contender.

Democratic Party chair Cameron Brooks says so far no Democrats have ex-pressed interest in the of-fi ce.

The city of Knoxville’s efforts to restore Fountain City Lake took a major step forward last Tuesday when City Council voted unani-mously to authorize a con-tract of up to $91,250 with a Knoxville company to in-stall a new pump, pipes and other infrastructure.

The pump, to be installed by Design & Construction Services Inc. by late spring, will restore constant circula-tion in the lake, increase ox-ygen levels in the water and moderate temperatures to reduce the growth of algae.

Meanwhile, Fountain City Town Hall will host an

open discussion of lake im-provements at 7 p.m. Mon-day, April 11, at Church of the Good Shepherd, 5337 Jacksboro Pike. Speakers are Joe Walsh, director of city parks and recreation, and Dr. Garry Menendez, landscape architect and Fountain City resident.

Last fall, the city repaired a leak in the earthen berm around the lake. A new wa-ter outlet structure was in-stalled, allowing the lake to fi ll to its proper depth.

Next, a small wetland will be developed in what’s now a shallow spot on the lake’s northern end.

New pump, wetland to improve Fountain City Lake

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Track and fi eld Volun-teers from the golden era of Chuck Rohe and Stan Huntsman will honor 50 years of Ed Murphey Award winners Friday at a country club reception and dinner.

On Saturday, the Uni-versity of Tennessee track program will recognize a lifetime of contributions by Terry Hull Crawford, for-mer champion runner and women’s coach at UT, Texas and Cal Poly-San Luis Obis-po. She evolved into coach-ing coaches for USA Track and Field.

Terry, many track alum-ni and guests will be treat-ed to a reunion dinner in a showplace segment of Neyland Stadium. Coach Beth Alford-Sullivan will discuss current Volunteers. A few good men lifted Ten-

Honors weekend for Tennessee trackMarvin

West

nessee to third place at the recent NCAA indoor cham-pionships. Women ran sev-enth.

Alas, there will be no serious running, jumping or throwing at Tom Black Track this weekend. It is bogged down in a rehabili-tation project that was sup-posed to have been fi nished months ago. Critics say big buildings have been built faster. Optimists say, if all eventually goes well, there will be a home track meet or three next spring.

The Murphey Award does not struggle with such chaos. It is presented each year for the outstanding performance by a Volunteer. It originated in 1965 as a gift from the legendary Ed Mur-phey.

What a story he was.In the mid-1950s, Mur-

phey played trumpet in the Pride of the Southland band. He was manager for the basketball team, re-sponsible for clean practice uniforms and dry towels.

He asked coach John Sines, also the track coach, if it would be OK to go out for track.

Sines’ response was his-toric: “OK Murph, just don’t get in anybody’s way.”

He didn’t. He ran the fastest mile ever on the cin-der track around Shields-

Watkins Field. He set a Southeastern Conference record in cross-country. He won the SEC mile three consecutive years. He won all-America recognition.

“Ed Murphey was a champion when champions were few at Tennessee,” said the late Tom Siler.

You may have heard of some who received Mur-phey Awards: Richmond Flowers, Willie Gault, Law-rence Johnson, Justin Gat-lin, Aries Merritt and Justin Hunter.

Terry Hull Crawford has a national prize named for her – the Terry Crawford Women’s Program of the Year Award.

Terry goes back to the late 1960s, the beginning of women’s sports at UT. Charlie Durham bought a

newspaper ad announcing that the Knoxville Track Club was forming a wom-en’s team. About 50 girls and women, ages 10 to 20, responded. Terry, 17, out of Greeneville High School, was in the group.

She became a three-time Volunteer all-American, winning the national 220 and 440 in 1969 and the 880 in 1970. She competed in the World University Games and Pan-American Games and twice got close to Olympic teams.

Terry came back as coach of women’s track. Her 1981 team won the national championship, fi rst in any women’s sport at Tennes-see. Among her other dis-tinctions was the recruit-ment of sprinter and jumper Holly Warlick from Bearden High. Holly also wanted to try basketball. The rest is history.

There came a time when Texas offered Terry a better coaching opportunity (more money). Tennessee athletic director Bob Woodruff lis-tened as Terry explained. He could have countered. He didn’t.

Terry went to Austin. Her Longhorns won fi ve NCAA championships and 18 Southwest Conference ti-tles. Her 1986 team was the only triple winner in history – indoors, outdoors and in cross-country.

Terry reappeared at the World and Pan-Am games as coach of U.S. teams. She was America’s coach at the 1988 Olympics. She won enough meets and produced enough all-Americans to coach 17 years at Cal Poly-San Luis Obispo.

The track world and I see her as a national treasure.Marvin West invites reader reaction. His

address is westwest6@netzero.com

The parents who attended Karen Carson’s meeting at Farragut High School were calm, but when they spoke, the tension of dealing with four separate school threats was evident.

They voiced concerns about who was in charge during a crisis − the school or the sheriff’s offi ce? They questioned whether kids should be locked down in classrooms if there was potentially a bomb in the building. One was upset about not being able to help a child who got sick while on lockdown in the football stadium.

Mostly, they were frus-trated over a lack of trust-worthy communication. What kind of threats were being made, and how were students being kept safe?

Farragut junior Viktoria Ohstrom

speaks as principal Stephanie

Thompson, left, looks on.

Trust hard to come by during school threats

While the safety of stu-dents is the highest priority, there’s a delicate balance be-tween enough and too much information, explained Dis-trict 5 school board member Carson. Too little info frus-trates parents; too much in-spires copycats.

It’s a legitimate con-cern. Threats at Farragut Intermediate, Hardin Val-ley Academy and Hardin Valley Elementary schools followed the Farragut High threats.

Knox County Schools

Chief of Security Gus Paid-ousis explained why com-municating during a crisis is a challenge. The only thing worse than no infor-mation is bad information, and when things are con-stantly changing, it’s dif-fi cult to provide accurate information, he said. Too much information could also allow someone who intends harm to anticipate strategy and do more dam-age.

Carson asked parents not to call the school during a crisis, but to trust that staff are doing everything they can to protect kids. Superin-tendent Jim McIntyre said schools need to communi-cate with parents, but after that, parents need to trust that the best decisions are being made.

sage on the wall. But, as Carson said, every threat has to be treated as if it’s real, which calls for lock-downs, bomb squads and bomb-sniffi ng dogs. Those things can make any parent less than rational, less able to trust.

Parents are not the only ones affected. Farragut High School junior Vikto-ria Ohstrom spoke up at the meeting to say that she

didn’t know what was hap-pening during last week’s threat, and it seemed like teachers didn’t know, either.

“That’s what scares peo-ple. Not the threats.”

Communication is im-portant, but the only thing that parents and students really want to hear is that the crisis is over and all is well. Until that’s the mes-sage, it will be hard to trust. We’ve seen too much.

That’s a tall order for par-ents. Those of us with teen-age children remember the shock of Col-umbine. We were horrifi ed by the mur-ders at Virginia Tech, and we grieved with the parents of the innocents killed at Sandy Hook Elemen-tary.

Local inci-dents like shootings at Cen-tral High School and Inskip Elementary School have also impacted us.

We know, rationally, that these are rare events. But all of us have imagined hearing the news that there’s been an incident at our child’s school.

It’s easy to imagine a student plotting to cancel classes for a day or two by writing a threatening mes-

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Betty Bean

Two years ago, life looked grim for Mike Blankenship.

Three weeks ago, my wife Joan and I, along with my sister-in-law Kathy Ashe from Atlanta, joined a Yale Alumni Tour of Cuba for 10 days. It was fascinating. As Joan says, it was a trip not a vacation.

Also on the trip was an-other Knoxvillian, Dr. Anne McIntyre, who is a retired UT professor of psychology and lives in Sequoyah Hills.

We fl ew into Santiago from Miami on the east-ern end of the island not far from Guantanamo Bay where the United States has a military facility. For the next six days we journeyed across the island and ulti-mately arrived in Havana two days after President Obama’s visit.

While the people were friendly and genuinely seem to want an improved rela-tionship with the U.S., the economy and lifestyle were clearly third world. Cuba is longer than Tennessee (about 700 miles) and the eastern end has been ne-glected by various regimes. Deferred maintenance is the order of the day as many historic buildings were col-lapsing or close to it. Carts were pulled by oxen or hors-es including carts used as taxis to transport people.

Dr. Anne McIntyre, former Mayor Victor Ashe and

Joan Ashe at the Ernest Hemingway house in Havana

on a recent trip to Cuba with Yale Alumni Travel. Both

Victor Ashe and McIntyre are Yale graduates and live

in Knoxville.

Ashes, McIntyre (not that one) tour Cuba

The cars are in large part holdovers from the 1950s which have been con-tinually restored due to the embargo and lack of new vehicles being imported. On the other hand, the bus we rode in was brand new as were most buses for tour-ists. Internet service was spotty at best and expensive for Cubans ($2 an hour).

Hotels outside Havana were clean but basic in their service. Parts of Havana it-self were modern and cur-rent and other parts were collapsing. The drive we took from Ernest Heming-way’s home outside Havana to the central part of the city passed several highly im-poverished areas.

Havana itself has an in-credible old city which ex-ceeds San Juan in Puerto Rico in size but has been neglected since the Castro revolution.

While President Obama made overturns to the Cu-ban people, he had not been gone more than one day be-

fore his remarks were blast-ed by Fidel Castro who stills lives and appears from time to time in well-planned ven-ues. But it was Fidel’s broth-er, Raul, the current presi-dent, who hosted Obama.

It was also clear that change is coming to Cuba, but at a very measured pace. In terms of infrastructure and advancing into this century for their economic well-being the country is 30 years behind. In terms of democratic processes, it’s not there in any meaningful way.

■ Blount Mansion

is hosting a dinner talk on Molsey Blount, wife of Gov. William Blount, by Dr. Nancy McEntee at 6:30 p.m. Thursday, April 14, at Holly’s Gourmet Market. Tickets, $60 each, can be reserved at 865-525-2375. Proceeds go to Blount Man-sion.

Not a lot is known about her, but like many wives, she was very infl uential af-ter she moved here in 1792. This year, which is the 225th birthday year of the Knoxville, is also the 90th anniversary of the Blount Mansion Association which

Career Magnet Academy FFA members at their fi rst

state convention this spring: (front) Paul Stiles, Lauren

Williams, Brittany Read, Darby Swanson; (back) Josh

Rutherford, Tylor Gann and Tobias DuBose.

Revered Ag teacher blooms in new garden

of the school day at North Knox, so Cox, Dunn and their classmates could fi n-ish their agriculture studies and continue to participate in FFA.

It involved a lot of driv-ing, but Blankenship says the commute was a snap compared to his fi rst 12 years of teaching when he made a 50-mile round trip to and from his home in Gibbs to Doyle High School (he has been a teacher with Knox County Schools for 37 years).

This year, he’s at CMA full-time, and has found a

niche in the school’s Sus-tainable Pathway, where 13 students – most from north and east Knox County – en-rolled in the program. One has moved, so he’s down to 12, still twice the number he was teaching at the Halls campus. He is proud that 11 of them will be headed “upstairs” next year to take college-level classes (CMA is housed on the ground fl oor of the Strawberry Plains Pike branch of Pellis-sippi State), and he’s proud of the brand-new FFA Chap-ter TNO337 he’s established there.

His teaching day starts with an agricultural science class, and he’s added an agricultural business and fi nance class in the second term and hopes to expand into business fi nance.

“Our pathway is a little different from any other program in the county. This is all so new, like building a plane – you look out and we’re working on this wing. We’re always in transition. No two days are alike.”

Blankenship is also teaching college and career readiness to ninth-graders, beginning the process of preparing them for the fu-ture. He is proud that his students will be able to en-roll in dual-credit (college level) courses that will put them far along the path to college degrees.

But one thing he misses is having a greenhouse like the one he built on the Halls campus, where he main-tained an annual Christmas tradition of raising and sell-ing poinsettias.

“Oh, I miss it. But we’re working on that. It’s still in the talking stage, but we’ve ID’d potential locations.”

Overall, Blankenship is grateful for the new chal-lenge and optimistic about the future.

“I am not an ax grinder,” he said. “Whatever is put in front of me, I’ll do my best to reach young people. I’m still standing.”

Blankenship

saved this historic house from being turned into a parking lot in 1926.

Dr. McEntee has writ-ten a book titled “Molsey Blount: Colonial First Lady of Tennessee.”

■ Grou ndbre a k i ng for the new $160 million State Museum in Nashville is today with Gov. Haslam and author Jon Meacham leading the ceremony.

The new facility is need-ed, but its design has been roundly criticized by sev-eral architects. The fi rm employed is from Minne-sota with little knowledge of Tennessee as several

Tennessee fi rms, including Knoxville’s McCarty Hol-saple, were rejected.

The Nashville Scene has described it as “a dumb box of a porch with no time or place and mute to the ex-pressive powers of architec-ture.” The Museum Com-mission on which I serve had no role in the design of the building. The fi nal say was made at a higher level.

I hope the governor takes another look at this design after the ground is broken so that like our State Capitol it is seen as an iconic build-ing 50 to 100 years from now.

Mayor Tim Burchett with Jackie Booker Griffi n at Jackie’s

Dream.

Burchett boosts Jackie’s Dream Café The place was packed,

but no one was complaining when Knox County Mayor Tim Burchett and his peo-ple came to lunch at Jackie’s Dream.

Jackie’s Dream Café opened March 6, 2015, at 2223 McCalla Avenue. It was a life dream for owner Jackie Booker Griffi n.

“I come from a family that cooks,” she writes on her website. “It’s what my mother, grandmother and uncles taught me.

“We made our own jelly, chow-chow, pickles. My grandfather had chickens

so we had fresh eggs. We hardly ever went to the store. We made everything from scratch, and I con-tinue to do it that way. Ev-erything is peeled, cut and chopped here. We eliminate cans whenever we can. I had fresh green beans and corn all summer long.”

Since taking offi ce, Bur-chett has used the occa-sional Dutch-treat lunch with the mayor to showcase locally owned restaurants. This one is known for its soul food and hot chicken. Hours and menu are online at jackiesdream.com

The District 6 Democratic Party is always angling to get pictures into the Shopper. There are the frequent trash pick-ups, the various parades, the frequent guest speakers. But the March meeting takes the prize.

Seems county commission candidate Donna L ucas was guest speaker. Janice Spoone said some members arrived early to fi nd a fi re truck at the Karns Middle School, smoke everywhere and their library meeting place closed.

Mike Knapp rushed to “We’re Cooking” to arrange a meeting space while Spoone and the school librarian found paper, markers and tape to post notices of the meeting change. The smoke was from a new heating/air system and all is well.

“You would have loved the excitement,” wrote Spoone. “Other than the fact that I probably smelled like smoke, we had a good group for the Lucas cam-paign meeting.”

We’re cooking!

At a time when he was facing serious family ill-nesses, he was notifi ed that his agricultural program at North Knox Career Tech-nical Education Center in Halls was being disbanded because of declining enroll-ment. His students were distraught.

“2014 was a very tumul-tuous time. My son passed

away, then my dad p a s s e d away three m o n t h s later. Two deaths in the family – plus the spi-raling down p r o c e s s

at work. Anytime you’re RIFed, it’s tough.”

But his students, particu-larly rising seniors Ryan Cox and James Dunn, decided to fi ght for their Future Farm-ers of America club and their teacher. When CTE su-pervisor Don Lawson found a spot for Blankenship at the Career Magnet Academy in East Knox County, their ef-forts spurred him to allow Blankenship to spend part

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SENIOR NOTES ■ Karns Senior Center:

8042 Oak Ridge Highway951-2653knoxcounty.org/seniorsMonday-Friday7:30 a.m.-4 p.m.

Off erings include: card

games; dance classes; exer-

cise programs; mahjong; art

classes; farkle dice games;

dominoes; a computer lab;

billiards room; outdoor grill

and kitchen area.

Register for: Wildlife

photographer Larry Perry

presentation, 1 p.m. Thurs-

day, April 7. Hamburger

and Hotdog Cookout, noon

Tuesday, April 12; bring side

dish.

■ Halls Senior Center4405 Crippen Road922-0416knoxcounty.org/seniorsMonday-FridayHours vary

Off erings include: card

games; exercise classes;

quilting, dominoes, dance

classes; scrapbooking,

craft classes; Tai Chi; movie

matinee 2 p.m. each Tues-

day; Senior Meals program,

noon each Wednesday. “Po-

etry Slam,” noon Thursday,

April 7. Snack and Learn:

“Clear Captions,” noon

Monday, April 11.

Register for: Pinterest/

Instagram/Twitter classes,

10 a.m.-noon Friday, April

8; cost: $15; register and

pay by Wednesday, April 6.

Snack and Learn: Clear Cap-

tions, noon Monday, April

11. “Take Me Out to the

Ball Game” potluck, noon

Tuesday, April 12; bring

ballgame dish to share.

Facebook classes, 10 a.m.-

noon Friday, April 15; cost:

$15; register and prepay by

Wednesday, April 13.

■ Alzheimer’s and Dementia Caregivers Support Group

meets 1 p.m. each last

Monday at Morning

Pointe, 7700 Dannaher

Drive. Info: 686-5771 or

morningpointe.com.

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We’ve been having a red-bud season that must rank up there among the best. The past couple of weeks have given us abundant sun-shine, steady warmish tem-peratures, and frequent rain showers, and our wonder-fully native and widespread redbud trees have responded with a huge fl ower show.

Last week I was walking around the grounds enjoying all those exuberant blossom – fi lled trees with their pea-type fl owers (they are in the legume family – notice those pea-pod fruits later on) when I was stopped at one big red-bud in particular.

There amongst the blos-soms was a little yellow-rumped warbler, not 10 feet away, briskly checking out every twig nook and bark cranny for whatever tiny in-sects it could capture. It was fi nding a steady supply of minute, mobile bits of pro-tein, so small that I couldn’t even see what it was catching. Just what a hyperactive, car-nivorous little bird needs to build up for spring courting, nest-building, brood-raising activities.

But as I watched the bird feeding on all those invis-ible critters, something else struck me about that tree full of blossoms: it was alive with bigger things too, a cloud of fl itting, buzzing, fl ying things, all working over the tree’s fl owers and – lucky for them – apparently not on the bird’s menu. Bugs!

The entomologists divide the enormous world of insects up into various orders and families, and in the precise way that they do it, “bugs,” or as they like to say, “the true bugs,” are one specifi c group of insects, with leathery wing covers and piercing and suck-ing mouthparts (yuck!). They include the likes of bedbugs, stink bugs, squash bugs, and those fl ashy orange-and-

Redbud trees, bugs and bees

Dr. Bob Collier

black milkweed bugs. But to us mere mortals,

“bugs” is a wonderfully use-ful word for any small crawly thing we might encounter, and probably look upon with suspicion, distrust, or fear: bees, beetles, spiders, ticks and mosquitoes, even craw-fi sh (mudbugs), and viruses (the fl u bug).

And as my redbud tree demonstrated, springtime brings them out in droves. I’m sure you’ve heard some-one say “what we need is a good cold winter to get rid of all those bugs.” That won’t happen, friends, unless we were to have another Ice Age around here. This past De-cember, we had a nice mild day when I watched a hatch of swarming little mosquito-sized gnats outside our front window, then a hungry phoe-be out there nipping them out of the air. The bugs are safe and sound, ready to go on a moment’s notice.

But back to the redbud tree – all that buzzing and fl itting got me to looking around to see what else was going on. And sure enough, there was a lot more. Not just in the air, but on the ground, and under it. As I trudged farther along, I noticed scattered here and there a bunch of newly-con-structed ant communities. Not just a hill, but a spread-out operation with piles of excavated earth over maybe a couple of feet of real estate. Quarter-inch businesslike black ants were going about, some carrying loads of stuff three times their size.

The March/April issue of The Tennessee Conser-

vationist has an article by Lizzie Wright, entitled The Ants of Tennessee. She re-lates that of the 13,000 spe-cies of ants on earth, some 127 species live in Tennes-see. And that doesn’t include those dreaded invaders from South America, the fi re ants, spreading ever northward and now here in Tennessee. More different ants than you can imagine!

But mostly, except for oc-casional visitations into our kitchens or our picnics, we almost never notice all those millions of ants there be-neath our feet. The fl ickers surely do, though. Our local woodpecker most likely to be seen on the ground, fl ickers like nothing better than to sit beside an ant colony and pick them off, one by one.

Back to the air, though. As far as big hard-working fami-lies go, the bees are the fl y-ing counterparts to our un-derground friends, the ants. And like the ants, there are a lot more of them than you might think, too. Of course, there are our familiar honey bees. They aren’t native to North America; they are im-migrants to North America, like most of our ancestors. In fact, many of our ancestors brought colonies of honey bees with them from their Old Countries.

It turns out, though, that there were a lot of other bees already here in North Amer-ica when those newcomers arrived – a lot more. There are 20,000 species of bees in the world, 4,000 native to the United States. They range in size from a tiny 1/12 inch bee to a more-than-inch-long behemoth. Over 90 percent of the species are solitary – they have a family consisting of one momma bee and her few offspring. The rest live in various-sized, but bigger, colonies that we’re more fa-miliar with.

And what good are those bees? Well, they pollinate over 75 percent of all our food crops. Without bees, no fruits, berries, vegetables, nuts, chocolate or coffee. And our honey bees continue to alarmingly decline, due to disease, insecticides and herbicides. In a major apple-growing area of China, they are having to use people on ladders, hand-pollinating each apple blossom, one by tedious one, to produce ap-ples. They’ve sprayed all their local bees into extinction! In our country, all those native bees are shouldering more of the load on crop pollination. Farmers are learning more about how important they are (and actually, always have been) and are taking mea-sures to protect and encour-age them. It’s working.

How about all those bugs as major bird food? Of course the birds eat tons of caterpil-lars and grasshoppers. We wouldn’t have many leaves left on anything if it weren’t for the birds. But in the air? Those swifts, swallows,

nighthawks, kingbirds and phoebes aren’t swooping around up there just for the exercise. Some curious sci-entists have rigged up fl ying machines with various bug traps, and come up with the astonishing fi gure that one square mile of air there just over our heads can contain as many as 32 million fl ying in-sects! Good for the birds, and very good for us earthlings here below, that the birds are up there consuming zillions of bugs daily.

There are a lot more bugs we haven’t mentioned, many that make our world look, feel and sound more like home to us. There are bugs that eat the bugs that would be eating our stuff – aphids, for example.

And others spend their waking hours eating mos-quitoes. Butterfl ies, dragon-fl ies, crickets and katydids – they’re here now or soon will be, adding a splash of color and some lovely evening mu-sic. All part of that big Web of Life unfolding out there in April. It’s really worth a closer look!

Redbud is abundant in Lake-

moor Hills. Photo by Betsy Pickle

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POWELL/NORWOOD Shopper news • APRIL 6, 2016 • A-7 faith

Yes, Easter is past, but I am convinced that Eas-ter is like Christmas: it is never “over.”

I am still processing something I wrote last week: “Isn’t it odd that not one of that blood-thirsty crowd bothered to stand at the foot of the cross and actually witness the agony of their victim?”

The 11 disciples who remained (Judas com-mitted suicide after his betrayal of Jesus) were in hiding, fearful of the Jew-ish leaders. Simon Peter – who had declared his allegiance to Jesus, prom-ising to die with him, if need be – hid, cowering behind closed doors.

However, the women who followed Jesus were at the foot of the cross. The Gospels give differ-ing accounts of which women, exactly, but Mary, the mother of James and Joseph (who was argu-ably also the mother of Jesus), Mary Magdalene, Salome, the un-named mother of the sons of Ze-

Many women were also there, looking on from a distance; they had followed Jesus from Galilee and had provided for him. Among them were Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James and Jo-seph, and the mother of the sons of Zebedee.

(Matthew 27: 55 NRSV)

Let them see what they’ve done!

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bedee, and Mary, the wife of Clopas are mentioned.

It is fair to point out that women counted for nothing in that culture, so they were no threat to the Roman soldiers who were carrying out the execu-tion. Women were of no consequence in the eyes of the soldiers.

Still, I am reminded of what Jacqueline Kennedy said after the assassina-tion of her husband.

When they were fi nally aboard Air Force One, fl y-ing to Washington, some-one gently suggested to Mrs. Kennedy that she change out of the blood-spattered pink suit she was still wearing.

“No,” she said emphati-cally. “Let them see what they’ve done!”

FAITH NOTES

Community services

■ Cross Roads Presbyterian,

4329 E. Emory Road, hosts the

Halls Welfare Ministry food

pantry 6-8 p.m. each second

Tuesday and 9-11 a.m. each

fourth Saturday.

■ Dante Church of God, 410

Dante School Road, will

distribute “Boxes of Blessings”

(food) 9-11 a.m. Saturday,

April 9, or until boxes are

gone. One box per house-

hold. Info: 689-4829.

■ Ridgeview Baptist Church,

6125 Lacy Road, off ers

Children’s Clothes Closet and

Food Pantry 11 a.m.-2 p.m.

each third Saturday. Free to

those in the 37912/37849 ZIP

code area.

Classes/meetings ■ First Comforter Church,

5516 Old Tazewell Pike, hosts

MAPS (Mothers At Prayer Ser-

vice) noon each Friday. Info:

Edna Hensley, 771-7788.

■ Powell Church, 323 W.

Emory Road, hosts Recovery

at Powell at 6 p.m. Thursdays

beginning April 14. The

program embraces people

who struggle with addiction,

compulsive behaviors, loss

and life challenges. Info: bh-

hartman12@gmail.com.

Youth programs ■ Beaver Ridge UMC, 7753 Oak

Ridge Highway, is accepting

registration for its Summer

Weekday Programs for PDO

(children 1 year old and walk-

ing) and for TNT (elementary

school-aged children). Also

accepting registration for

Fall Preschool and Fall PDO.

Forms available in the pre-

school offi ce. Info: 531-2052.

By Nancy AndersonPastor Todd Stewart and

Mike Brogdon, Lonsdale community ministry leader, led a team of 40 members of Grace Baptist Church on April 2 for their monthly mis-sion to make a difference in the Lonsdale community.

The Adopt-A-Block team meets the fi rst Saturday of each month, visiting 150-200 homes to give small gifts and offering prayer or minor house repairs.

“We usually have a small practical gift to offer, like

9-volt batteries for their smoke alarms or light bulbs. If they’re elderly or unable, we’ll replace it for them. If they need minor repairs and own their home, we’ll make a note of that and refer it on to The Crew, a ministry of folks at the church who will come out to do those repairs.”

Stewart said they don’t perform the repairs as acts of charity.

“We are not a system that just gives things away. We ask them if they have a

At the Lonsdale worksite are Spanish translator Benatto Lazo, Cindy Zimbrich, Colbi Young, Mike Wright, Tina Brogdon; (back)

John Tapp, Todd Stewart, Mike Brogdon and Brody Young.

Making a diff erence one block at a time

By Carol Z. ShaneKnoxville is bursting

with Rhythm ‘n’ Blooms this weekend, and music and art of all types abound.

One fairly “new kid on the block” is the Scruffy City Orchestra, Knoxville’s fi rst and only community or-chestra. They’ll be present-ing their very fi rst concert, “Old Friends, New Faces,” this Friday.

The orchestra will be led by two local conductors, Ace Edewards and Matt Wilkin-son, who’ve been on board from the beginning.

Wilkinson, a cellist, vet-eran of the Knox County “Strings in the Schools” program and currently director of the Maryville High School Orchestra, says, “A group of commu-nity members that played

in the Maryville commu-nity orchestra while I was the conductor contacted me about starting a Knoxville community orchestra, and after a night at Central Flats and Taps we formed the Scruffy City Orchestra and board. The idea is creating an atmosphere for amateur musicians to have a place to perform quality classical music.”

Anyone who is interested in playing in future rehears-als and concerts is urged to contact the SCO. “All are welcome” says Edewards.

The Scruffy City Orches-tra’s spring concert, “Old Friends, New Faces,” will be presented at 7:30 p.m. this Friday, April 8, at First Bap-tist Church, 510 W. Main St. in Knoxville. General ad-mission is $5 at the door.

New orchestra sets concert

Crossroads Academy

fundraiserCorryn May (at left) and

her sister Sydney May

look over donations for

the silent auction held at

Crossroads Academy, along

with a fundraising dinner.

The academy is housed

with Crossroads Fellowship

on Clinton Highway just

past Edgemore Road. Info:

crossroadsfellowship.orgPhoto by S. Clark

as second language and job skills training in the back.

The house will be reno-vated and offered for rent with the funds going toward the purchase and renova-tion of another house in the area.

“We’d like to help provide them a beautiful, safe place to live – some place they can be proud to call home where the rent is fi xed and afford-able. There seems to be a

gap between programs like Habitat for Humanity and other housing programs. We’d like to fi ll that gap with safety and security,” Stew-art said.

friend or family member who can help us with the work or if they can help pur-chase materials.

“We’re about empower-ing people for life transfor-mation so they can accom-plish the things they want and the things God wants.”

There are big things on the horizon for the Adopt-A-Block program.

A Lonsdale house was donated to the church, and the city of Knoxville has a building they’re willing to rent for $1 a year.

Stewart hopes to start a medical clinic in the front part of the building and possibly conduct English

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posture can also affect spinal development in children.

Signs of scoliosis are a high hip or uneven hips, a high shoulder, the head being off center, head tilt, back and leg pain, fatigue and stooped posture.

Chiropractic care works on correcting scoliosis and relieving symptoms and complications associated with scoliosis. To see if chiropractic may be able to help you, call 938-8700 today for a complimentary consultation.

By Dr. Donald G. Wegener

Scoliosis is a lateral curvature of the spine. Scoliosis affects boys and girls between the ages of 8 and 18. It is more common

with girls.

There are several causes of scoliosis, the two most common are congenital and habitual. Congenital scoliosis occurs when someone is born with a lateral curvature of the spine.

Habitual causes are environmental or situational depending on the habits of the individual. Carrying backpacks improperly can contribute to a spinal distortion. Poor sitting habits and practicing poor

NEWS FROM POWELL CHIROPRACTIC

Scoliosis

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Dr. Donald G. WegenerPowell Chiropractic Center

Powell Chiropractic Center7311 Clinton Hwy., Powell

865-938-8700 www.keepyourspineinline.com

Kindergarten Round-up is April 12Kindergarten Round-up for the 2016-2017 school

year will be held in all Knox County elementary schools Tuesday, April 12.

To enter kindergarten, children should be 5 years old by Aug. 15. To enroll their children in kindergar-ten during round-up, parents need to bring the child’s birth certifi cate, proof of up-to-date immunizations and health/physical examination, and proof of resi-dency within the school zone.

■ Beaumont – 7:30-9 a.m. and 3-6 p.m. Info: 594-1272

■ Brickey-McCloud – 3:30-5:30 p.m. Info: 689-1499

■ Copper Ridge – 3-5 p.m. Info: 938-7002 ■ Inskip – 3-5 p.m. Info: 689-1450 ■ Lonsdale – 9-11 a.m. and 3:30-6 p.m.

Info: 594-1330 ■ Maynard – 3-5 p.m. Info: 594-1333 ■ Norwood – 3-6 p.m. Info: 689-1460 ■ Pleasant Ridge – 10:45-11:45 a.m. and 3:30-5:30

p.m. Info: 594-1354 ■ Powell – 4-6 p.m. Info: 938-2048 ■ Sterchi – 3-5:30 p.m. Info: 689-1470 ■ West Haven – 8-10 a.m. and 3-5 p.m.

Info: 594-4467 ■ West View – 8-10 a.m. and 3-5 p.m.

Info: 594-4471

By Ruth WhiteIt takes a village to raise

a child. In the case of stu-dents at Northwest Middle School, it takes a commu-nity. Northwest is a commu-nity school, and they are us-ing all possible resources to help their students succeed every day.

A community school doesn’t just exist after school hours, but is ongo-ing throughout the school day. Community businesses and members provide sup-port and resources to help build solid foundations for students. “There is always activity going on at the school,” said community schools site resource coor-dinator Liz Thacker. They offer a ton of after-school activities, allow use of the ball fi elds and track by com-munity groups and during school hours they team up with different partners to

Art club inspires students, creativity

Paris Markel, Jasmine Belyea and Forrest Hamilton create turtles from clay during a club meeting.

Channing Gentry shows a puppet resembling Batman that she

created in art club at Northwest Middle School. Photos by R. White

Powell High presentationPowell High School will present “Einstein Revealed,

Relatively Speaking,” 7 p.m. Tuesday, April 26, in the au-ditorium. The event will be presented by Dr. Roger Miller and is open to the community.

A sampling of the “ugly mugs” the students created in art club

provide educational oppor-tunities for all grade levels.

The school’s after-school art club has been going strong since the Thanksgiv-ing holiday. Teacher Kevin Gentry shares his passion for art by volunteering his time to work with budding artists. While most of the students are in the club be-cause they have an inter-est, some join to see what’s going on and stay because they enjoy the atmosphere and learning experience.

Seventh grader Paris Markel has been interested

in art since she was three years old but says that she started taking it seriously in sixth grade. She likes to work with materials from scratch. Paris hopes to design creatures for the movies one day. Channing Gentry also enjoys art and creating things. Her father

is an art teacher, so it runs in her blood. She enjoys creating pencil drawings and would like to be an en-gineer.

The art club offers stu-dents great after-schoolactivities and allows them to explore new avenues of creativity.

History award nominations soughtThe East Tennessee Historical Society (ETHS) invites

nominations from across East Tennessee for Awards of Ex-cellence in the fi eld of history. The annual awards recognize individuals and organizations that have made signifi cant contributions to the preservation, promotion, program-ming and interpretation of the region’s history. The post-mark deadline for award applications is April 8.

Info/nomination form: 215-8824; eastTNhistory.org; East Tennessee Historical Society, PO Box 1629, Knoxville, TN 37901.

Rangers collect pennies for patientsStudents at Northwest Middle School are busy

collecting pennies (and more) for the Pennies for Patients campaign. AVID students kicked off the event with an assembly and presentation of the project to the school.

The school has participated in the collection for the past seven years and has donated $26,000 for cancer research over that time. This year’s goal is $4,000 and the winning homeroom will receive lunch from Olive Garden. Second-place classroom will receive a penny cake, third place will receive a cupcake party and fourth place will receive an ice cream party.

Deadline to turn in pennies, dollars or even checks is Friday, April 15.

Roberts kicks off CTE Idol in Knoxville

Karns High student and runner-up on “The Voice” last

season, Emily Ann Roberts, is interviewed by Zack Neely

at the kickoff of CTE Idol. Neely is a 2013 grad of Powell

High and currently works at Merle FM radio. Neely was

a radio student at Byington-Solway when he had the

opportunity to interview Jack Ryan. After the interview he

jokingly asked, “When do I start?” That encounter led to

Neely being hired as the station mascot (a squirrel) and

then eventually moving on to become a DJ. Photo by R. WhIte

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Aaliyah Riddle and Shyne Robinson hand out boxes for

students to collect pennies for leukemia and lymphoma

research. Photo by R. White

Copper Ridge El-ementary Teacher of the Year Shawn Smith has been teaching since February of 1985, back when it was known as Knox City Schools. She’s al-ways worked with children, from leading activities as a teen at her church to work-ing at camps through col-lege. Her mom was a teacher and her dad was a minister of education, so teaching is in her blood.

Smith worked at Ridge-dale for 15 years and joined Copper Ridge in 2000. Kin-dergarten has changed a lot since she began teaching, but Smith said that she’s grown with the changes. She’s thankful that Knox County Schools has offered so many opportunities for training to help her grow along with her students.

Smith loves kindergar-ten and the changes her stu-dents experience each year. “Watching them develop is exciting. Things are clicking for them and it’s fun to see.”

Smith shines at Copper RidgeCopper Ridge

Elementary kinder-

garten teacher Shawn

Smith is the school’s

Teacher of the Year. Photo by R. White

She incorporates real world learning through tools like a panda cam and an eagle cam.

The Copper Ridge com-munity is a special place to Smith, who loves the fam-ily-oriented atmosphere, especially among the staff. She is a lead teacher at the school and gets to see fi rst-hand just how talented the staff members are. “I have learned so much from the other teachers,” she says. “… I see how they apply teach-ing strategies and great ideas and the sharing of ideas in the school.”

Smith enjoys being in the classroom with her stu-dents, but when she can grab a free moment she likes to play the piano (her hobby) and go camping with her family.

REUNION NOTES ■ Halls High classes of 2005

and 2006 combined reunion,

7:30 p.m. Saturday, April 30,

Knoxville Hilton. Tickets:

Eventbrite.com.

■ Knoxville High School

Alumni Association will

host the Classes of 1910-

1951, 11:30 a.m. Saturday,

May 30, Bearden Banquet

Hall, 5806 Kingston Pike.

Info: Wayne, 696-9858; Sara,

588-6098.

“Where’s Kelly?” Mr. Lester’s face was pale. “How can we practice without Kelly? Doesn’t anyone know where he is? It’s two-thirty.”

Mr. Lester was our history teach-er. I thought he was going to cry. For myself, I felt like laughing, laughing hysterically.

There were 11 of us standing be-hind the South Or-ange River Middle School, near the playing fi eld, feel-ing silly in brand-new red shorts and yellow T-shirts with “S.O.R.” on our backs. If any dogcatchers had come around, they would have swooped us up for a bunch of stray mutts. On the fi eld, kids were running, tossing, kicking, all that stuff.

During two practice sessions we had done two things. Since none of us knew soccer rules, Mr. Lester read them to us. Then we ran around in circles while he read the rules again, to himself. He didn’t know them either.

Second practice? We tried kicking the ball. Wasn’t easy.

“Gentlemen,” pleaded Mr. Lester. “We have our fi rst game tomorrow. Doesn’t any-one know something about Kelly?”

No one said a word. The truth was going to hurt, and no one wanted to hurt Mr. Les-ter. He was a nice guy.

“We have to play tomorrow,” he said, as if we didn’t know. We knew it too well.

It was my special buddy, Saltz, who let it out. “Mr. Lester, Kelly no longer goes to our school. His father’s job was transferred somewhere. Kelly tagged along.” I don’t think we’d had our new uniforms on for more than 30 minutes, but Saltz, a natu-ral slob, looked like he’d slept in his for 20 years.

And he, like the rest of us, was only 12.“No longer in school?” said Mr. Lester,

who had actually volunteered to be our coach. “But what about our fi rst game?”

“He wanted to be with his family,” said someone. I think it was Eliscue.

The coach sighed. He was a history teach-er, and we were not what they write history about. If our school had a worse collection of athletes than the 11 of us, they were on display in the museum mummy section.

But there we were Hays, Porter, Dorman, Lifsom, Saltz, Radosh, Root, Barish, Elis-cue, Fenwick, and me, Sitrow. In a school that was famous, positively famous, for its teams and all-stars, we were not considered typical. Walk in the front door and the fi rst thing you’d see was a wall of trophies – all for sports. It was as if we were a sports club. Not a school.

“Doesn’t he understand you can’t play soccer without a goaltender? He should have told me.” Mr. Lester said that the way he might explain the sinking of the Titanic.

“His father probably got the job because Kelly didn’t want to play,” said Dorman.

When Mr. Lester got red in the face from frustration, he looked like an over-ripe tomato. His round face puffed and the few bits of topside hair were like old, dead leaves. It was clear he already regretted be-ing coach just as much as we regretted the thought of playing.

For example, me. I was so bad I was des-ignated as the only sub. I didn’t expect to play at all. But then, none of us expected to play. The point was, our school had a re-

quirement that you had to play at least one team sport each year. We had slipped through the fi rst year. None of us had played. None of us wanted to. But once they caught on, they in-vented a team just for us.

“Let’s go back to the locker room,” suggested Mr. Les-ter.

Glad to skip practice, we fol-lowed him. Luckily,

the locker room was empty. Everyone else was either playing or practicing.

I sat on a bench next to Saltz. “Let’s hear it for Kelly,” he whispered.

“Maybe they’ll call the whole thing off,” I thought out loud.

He shrugged. Saltz and I had been pals since kindergarten. So I knew what he’d rather be doing: writing poetry.

“How many do we have here?” asked Mr. Lester.

“Two,” said Root. He was our math genius.“Gentlemen,” said Mr. Lester, “this is not

a joke. Please line up.”Our cleats clicking like bad pennies on

the cement fl oor, we went up against the wall, all 11 of us. Porter was on one side of me, Saltz on the other.

“Maybe we’ll get shot,” said Porter.“Only if we’re lucky,” said Fenwick.“Gentlemen, quiet please,” said Mr. Les-

ter. He stood there looking miserable. You could tell he didn’t like what he saw. But then, considering what we saw in the fu-ture, starting the next day, we didn’t like it either.

“Gentlemen,” he said softly. When Mr. Lester shouted, his voice got softer. “Gen-tlemen, you know why you’re here.”

No one said a word. Seventh-grade boys don’t make good farewell speeches, not in front of execution squads.

“Do you?” he asked. My guess is that he was wondering himself.

“It’s good for us,” Lifsom said, as if de-scribing someone’s need for a head trans-plant.

“South Orange River Middle School has a fi ne sports tradition,” continued Mr. Lester. “‘Everybody plays, everybody wins.’ That’s our motto. And you, gentlemen, have been here a full year without being on any team.”

“That’s because we’ve got better things to do,” said Barish.

Mr. Lester’s face turned purple. But he went on, even softer. You had to strain to hear. “That’s exactly the point. You are all – each one – nice, smart boys. You, however, have avoided sports. Too much desk work.”

“Nanotechnology,” slipped in Hays. “The big future.”

Mr. Lester’s face made the ultimate transformation. He turned deathly white and spoke as though from the grave. “S.O.R. believes in the whole person. We’ve cre-ated this team for your good. From now on, you’re going to play. Sport is a major part of American life. Starting tomorrow, we’ve got a season to play. Six games. Let’s do it with honor.”

“What about ability?” asked Radosh.

Mr. Lester passed over that with a sigh. “We need a goaltender.” I saw his eyes travel up and down the line. To my horror, they landed on me.

“Ed,” he said to me, the way a kindly pi-rate might ask the next victim to walk the plank. “You’re the tallest. You’ll be goal-tender.”

“Me?” I said, pointing to my narrow, weak and unformed chest. I couldn’t be-lieve it.

“Yes, you.”“Sir,” I said in a panic, “I never played

goalie before. I never played soccer before. I never played anything before.”

“Neither have your teammates. But we are going to give it our best, aren’t we? We’ll gain pride by trying. Game tomorrow. You all have permission to be out of your after-noon classes. Be ready, here, tomorrow at one-thirty for the bus. In uniform. We don’t want to be late. It makes for a poor start.”

And that’s how I became goalie for the South Orange River Middle School Special Seventh-Grade Soccer Team. I happened to be tallest.

Talk about talent.On second thought, I’d better not. Not

when you see what happened.To be continued next week

Text copyright © 2012 Avi. Illustrations copyright © 2012 Timothy Bush. Reprinted by permission of Breakfast Serials, Inc., www.breakfastserials.com. No part of this publication may be

reproduced, displayed, used or distributed without the express written permission of the copyright holder.

CHAPTER ONE: The new team at South Orange River Middle School

“a breakfast serials story”S.O.R. Losers Written by Avi and Illustrated by Timothy Bush

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POWELL/NORWOOD Shopper news • APRIL 6, 2016 • A-11 business

East Tennessee Com-munity Design Center has added fi ve new directors. Each will serve a three-year term: Lucinda M. Albiston, attorney; Bill Bruce, CRJA-IBI Group; Scott Busby, AIA, Smee + Busby Architects; Mary Kathryn Durr, Gregar-ious Media; and Georgiana Vines, political columnist.

Board offi cers elected for 2016 include: Jan Evridge, president; Rick Blackburn, fi rst vice president; Nathan Honeycutt, AIA, second

vice president; Katharine Pearson Criss, treasurer; Sheryl Ely, secretary; and Mary Wells Holbrook, past president. Jason Young,AIA, UT Knoxville College of Architecture & Design, is an ex-offi cio director.

“The Design Center has served East Tennessee for many years, through the work of strong, committed volunteers. Our new direc-tors are great examples of this ‘volunteer spirit’ at work,” said Evridge.

By Sandra ClarkUnion County resident

and school board member Marty Gibbs is directing a

major new c o n s t r u c -tion project at the Uni-versity of Tennessee. The Moss-man Build-ing is sched-uled to open for fall

semester 2018, and Rent-enbach Constructors Inc., where Gibbs is vice presi-dent and general manager, is the contractor.

Designed by McCarty Holsaple McCarty Archi-tects Inc., the futuristic building will house fl exible laboratory space, a vivar-ium and general purpose classrooms for UT depart-ments of microbiology, bio-chemistry, cellular and mo-lecular biology, psychology and nutrition.

Ground-breaking was Oct. 29 at the corner of Cumberland Avenue and 13th Street. The facility is named for the late Ken and Blaire Mossman, who met when they were students in 1968 and stayed connected to UT throughout their lives. The couple also en-dowed a professor in micro-biology, a position currently held by Steven Wilhelm.

Ken Mossman’s younger brother, Michael, also a UT graduate, attended the ground-breaking. He said, “At the heart of things they were good people who were interested in education, in-

Design Center gets new directors

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terested in paying things forward.”

Chancellor Jimmy Cheek said having state-of-the-art facilities is critical to re-cruiting and retaining the best faculty and students. “We’ve grown our research awards and expenditures and raised our national pro-fi le, particularly in science and engineering. We’ve

made great strides in re-cruiting more students into STEM majors,” Cheek said.

Dave Irvin, associate vice chancellor for facilities ser-vices, recently updated UT supporters on the campus improvements underway:

■ The Mossman Build-ing – seven fl oors (six occu-pied levels plus a mechani-cal penthouse); 220,935

square feet; total project cost: $102 million

■ The Student Union with a portion open and completion expected in 2018

■ The fi rst two buildings in the West End residence hall development are rising on 20th Street and are set to open this fall

■ New residence hall

UT app see empty and full spaces in real time.

■ Facilities Services getsa new home on the site of an old industrial complex at 2000 Sutherland Avenue at Concord Street. Irvin said a part of the building is struc-turally reinforced with its own power, which will allow Facilities Services to stay operational during the most severe weather conditions.

Work continues at Tom Black Track; the old smoke-stack at the UT Steam Plant was removed over the De-cember break, marking a visible milestone in the campus’s switch from coal to natural gas; and the for-mer Sophronia Strong Hall continues its transforma-tion into a large and modern science class and laboratory facility. Set to open in 2017, it will house anthropology and earth and planetary sci-ences departments and will provide laboratory and in-struction space for the gen-eral biology and chemistry departments.

With all the work under-way at UT, it’s great to see a Union County guy in the middle of the mix.

■ Crye-Leike has opened an East Tennes-

see regional headquarters in Knoxville.

CEO Harold E. Crye said he intends to

grow Crye-Leike by adding two to three

more branches in Farragut and Oak Ridge.

Its headquarters offi ce is now located at

9539 Kingston Pike in the Franklin Square

area. This headquarters building, previ-

ously a law offi ce, was purchased by Crye

in January 2016 for $1.05 million. Its leased

offi ce space at 731 Campbell Station Road

in Farragut is now closed.

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THROUGH SUNDAY, APRIL 17“Annie, Jr.,” Knoxville Children’s Theatre, 109

E. Churchwell Ave. Performances: 7 p.m. Thursdays and Fridays, 1 and 5 p.m. Saturdays, 3 p.m. Sundays. Info: 208-3677; knoxvillechildrenstheatre.com; info@childrenstheatreknoxville.com.

MONDAYS THROUGH APRIL 25QED Experimental Comedy Lab, 7:30-9:30

p.m., The Pilot Light, 106 E. Jackson Ave. Free comedy show blending stand-up, improv, sketch and other performance styles. Donations accepted.

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 6International Folk Dance Class, 7:30-10

p.m., Claxton Community Center, 1150 Edgemoor Road, Clinton. Info: Paul Taylor, 898-5724; oakridgefolkdancers.org; on Facebook.

THURSDAY, APRIL 7Bee Friends beekeeping group meeting, 6:30

p.m., auditorium, Tazewell Campus of Walters State. Club members will be discussing their experiences of this spring season and exchanging ideas and answering questions. Open to everyone interested in beekeeping.

Big Ridge 4th District Neighborhood Watch meeting, 7 p.m., Big Ridge Elementary School library. Info: 992-5212.

Celebrate National Poetry Month with Rose Klix, noon, Halls Senior Center, 4405 Crippen Road. Participants receive complimentary poetry book from Klix. Info: 922-0416.

Pop-Up Chess, 6-8 p.m., Burlington Branch Library, 4614 Asheville Highway. Open to all ages and skill levels. Info: 525-5431.

FRIDAY, APRIL 8Reception for new Knoxville Watercolor

Society exhibit, 6:30-8 p.m., Fountain City Art Center, 213 Hotel Ave. Exhibit on display through May 4. Info: 357-2787.

Scruffy City Orchestra inaugural concert, 7:30 p.m., First Baptist Church of Knoxville, 510

W Main St. Program: “Old Friends, New Faces.” Admission: $5 at the door. Debit and credit cards accepted. Info: facebook.com/scruffycityorchestra.

FRIDAY-SATURDAY, APRIL 8-9Children’s consignment sale, 8 a.m.-6 p.m.

Friday and 8 a.m.-3 p.m. Saturday, Bookwalter UMC, 4218 Central Avenue Pike. Saturday is half-off day. Presale, 6-8 p.m. Thursday, April 7. Consigning info: 689-3349.

SATURDAY, APRIL 9Benefi t singing and bake sale, 5 p.m., Rutherford

Memorial UMC, 8715 Corryton Road. Featuring: Dorothy Mitchell, Crimson Ridge, Nicole Doyal, Roger and Amanda Theilen, the Rutherford Memorial Praise Team and House Upon the Rock. All proceeds go to Marisha Dotson, who is fi ghting a rare form of Stage 3 cancer. Info: Anita Duval, 394-1175.

Churchwide yard sale, 8 a.m.-3 p.m., Powell Presbyterian Church, 2910 W. Emory Road. Housewares, furniture, toys, clothes, books, movies and more. All proceeds go to ministry. Info: 938-8311 or powellpcusa.org.

Community Fun Fest and Ministry Awareness Event, 9 a.m.-4 p.m., Luttrell Park. Luttrell. Activities include: vendors, silent auction, play area, bounce house, singing food, fun crafts and more.

“Cooking Wild” class, 10 a.m.-noon, Clinton Physical Therapy Center, 1921 N. Charles G. Seivers Blvd., Clinton. Instructors: Camille Watson, holistic health coach, and herbalist Danna Sharp of Wisteria Herbs. Cost: $39. Preregistration deadline: Wednesday, April 6. Info/registration: 457-1649.

Evening of Storytelling, 7-9 p.m., Mac Smith Resource Center, 1936 Liberty Hill Road, Washburn. Info: 497-2753 or community@narrowridge.org.

Kitten and cat adoption fair, noon-6 p.m., West Town PetSmart adoption center, 214 Morrell Road. Sponsored by Feral Feline Friends of East Tennessee. Info: www.feralfelinefriends.org.

Love is the Answer: Youth Open Mic, 1-4 p.m., Burlington Branch Library, 4614 Asheville Highway. Info: outsey2@hotmail.com or 306-7070.

Northside Kiwanis Pancake Jamboree and Bake Sale, 7 a.m.-2 p.m., Saint John’s Lutheran Church, Broadway at Emory Place. All proceeds support the club’s community service activities. Tickets available at the door: $12 for a family of four; $5 for individuals. Info: Bill Larson, 693-8845.

Rain barrel workshop, 10 a.m.-noon, Church of the Good Shepherd, 5773 Jacksboro Pike. Sponsored by the Water Quality Forum. Cost: $40 per barrel. Preregistration required. Info/registration: Kellie, kcaughor@utk.edu or 974-2151.

MONDAY, APRIL 11Coffee, Donuts and a Movie: “The Man from

U.N.C.L.E.,” 10:30 a.m., Burlington Branch Library, 4614 Asheville Highway. Info: 525-5431.

Family Movie Night: “The Good Dinosaur,” 5:30 p.m., Burlington Branch Library, 4614 Asheville Highway. Info: 525-5431.

TUESDAY, APRIL 12Knoxville Civil War Roundtable meeting,

8 p.m., Bearden Banquet Hall, 5806 Kingston Pike. Speaker: Scott Mingus. Topic: The Louisiana Tigers in the Gettysburg Campaign. Dinner, 7 p.m. Cost: $5 lecture only; $17, dinner and lecture. RSVP by noon Monday, April 11 to 671-9001.

Paulette 6th District Neighborhood Watch meeting, 7 p.m., Paulette Elementary School cafeteria. Info: 992-5212.

“Salvage Jewelry” class, 6-9 p.m., Appalachian Arts Craft Center, 2716 Andersonville Highway, Norris. Instructor: Sarah Brobst. Info/registration: 494-9854; appalachianarts.net.

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 13Computer Workshop: Word Basics, 2-4:15 p.m.,

Burlington Branch Library, 4614 Asheville Highway. Requires “Introducing the Computer” or equivalent skills. Info/registration: 525-5431.

“DIY: Learn how to make eco-friendly home cleaners,” 2-3:30 p.m., Humana Guidance Center, 640 Plaza, 4438 Western Ave. Free and open to the public. Info: 329-8892, TTY: 711.

International Folk Dance Class, 7:30-10 p.m., Claxton Community Center, 1150 Edgemoor Road, Clinton. Info: Paul Taylor, 898-5724; oakridgefolkdancers.org; on Facebook.

THURSDAY, APRIL 14Austin-East Magnet High School Artists’

Reception, 4:30-6:30 p.m., Burlington Branch Library, 4614 Asheville Highway. Light hors d’oeuvres and refreshments will be provided. Info: 525-5431.

“Beginning Writing” workshop, 6-8 p.m., Appalachian Arts Craft Center, 2716 Andersonville Highway, Norris. Instructor: Kathleen Fearing. Registration deadline: April 7. Info/registration: 494-9854; appalachianarts.net.

“Getting Your House in Order” seminar, 10-11 a.m.., North Knoxville Medical Center, 7565 Dannaher Drive, Sister Elizabeth Room. Free; registration required. Info/registration: 1-855-TENNOVA (836-6682) or Tennova.com.

“Ginseng: Gold in the Smoky Mountains,” 3:15-4:30 p.m., Humana Guidance Center, 4438 Western Ave. Presented by Master Gardener Janie Bitner. Free and open to the public. Info: 329-8892.

Halls Book Club: “In the Unlikely Event,” 1 p.m., Halls Branch Library, 4518 E. Emory Road. Info: 922-2552.

Living with Diabetes: Putting the Pieces Together, 2-4:30 p.m., Fountain City Branch Library, 5300 Stanton Road. Info: 689-2681.

VFW meeting, 7 p.m., 140 Veteran St., Maynardville. All veterans are invited. Info: 278-3784.

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By Carol Z. ShaneNicole Yarbrough, executive fi tness manager

at Tennova Health & Fitness Center, is invested in the well-being of everyone who makes use of the facility on Dannaher Drive.

She does, however, admit special fondness for two members in particular.

Jack and Marie Edmondson, 74 and 75 re-spectively, have been faithful members of Tennova Health & Fitness Center since 2002. Married 57 years, they show up almost every weekday for fi tness classes. They also greet newcomers, help with set-up and keep track of absentees. “They’re my ambassadors,” says Yarbrough.

Marie – retired from Sears accounting de-partment – says she’s always loved exercise, but Jack, who put in long hours as a conductor with Norfolk-Southern Railroad, was always too tired when he got home at the end of the day.

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Selected Varieties, Hot Cocoa or

Food Club Coffee12 Ct. or 12 Oz.

Final price when you buy 5 in a single transaction. Lesser quantitiesare 3.49 each. Limit 1 transaction. Customer pays sales tax.

5/$10With

Selected Varieties

Pepsi Products6 Pk., 1/2 Liter Btls.

Food City Fresh, 80% Lean

Ground Chuck Per Lb. for 3 Lbs. or More

99¢With Card

Holly Farms

Split Chicken BreastFamily Pack, Per Lb.

Sweet

JumboCantaloupeEach

2/$4With Card

169With Card

Sweet

Red Seedless Grapes Per Lb.299

With Card

SAVE AT LEAST 5.99 ON TWO

Selected Varieties

Kraft Dressing

16 Oz.

SAVE AT LEAST 3.49 ON TWO

Selected Varieties

Kraft BBQ Sauce

17.5-18 Oz.

Granulated

Food Club Sugar

4 Lb.

SAVE AT LEAST 2.19 ON TWO

Selected Varieties,Deli Style or

Food ClubSingles6.84-12 Oz.

SAVE AT LEAST 3.39 ON TWO SAVE AT LEAST 3.39 ON TWO

Selected Varieties, Select

MayfieldIce Cream

48 Oz.

SAVE AT LEAST 5.99 ON TWO

5

Hot Dog or

Food City Hamburger

Buns8 Ct.

SAVE AT LEAST 1.99 ON TWO

The Food City 500 is Sunday, April 17